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MARES is a three-year world-class Joint Doctoral Programme offered by a consortium of 23 partner institutions (11 full partners and 12 associated members) originating from 14 countries. Ghent University (Belgium) is the coordinator of MARES.The MARES Doctoral Programme was approved for funding by EU in July 2010. The first Doctoral candidates in the programme have started from September 2011 onwards. Applications for doctoral candidates will be open from 16 November 2010 onwards. The next call for applications (call 2013; Edition 4) is expected to be opened in September 2013. This is for scholarships starting September 2014 at the earliest.
All MARES doctoral candidates will study with two of the partner institutions and will be awarded a joint Ph.D. degree (Doctorate in Marine Sciences). In connection with the annual call for applications, the MARES doctoral programme will publish a catalogue of MARES PhD research topics within the applied scientific fields of Marine Ecosystem Health and Conservation.
MARES will focus on six scientific and applied fields, all dealing with the effects of impacts of humans on the natural marine environment :
- Future Oceans : temperature changes - hypoxia - acidification
- Understanding biodiversity effects on the functioning of marine ecosystems
- Biological invasions
- Natural Resources : overexploitation, fisheries and aquaculture
- Ocean noise pollution
- Habitat loss, urban development, coastal infrastructures and Marine Spatial Planning
The MARES doctoral programme defines a common foundation in which all doctoral candidates must build on regardless of research topic and institutions. This common foundation is the following :
- study periods with at least two MARES partner institutions,
- Co-tutelle ,
- at least follow 10 credits in transferable skills and 10 credits in advanced research topics,
- attendance at the Annual MARES Meetings,
- attendance to two international scientific conferences (with post or oral presentation)
- at least one publication accepted in a peer reviewed journal.
In this way, the MARES doctoral candidates will be involved in common activities, giving them opportunities for networking with other doctoral candidates, other academia, research organizations and enterprises. Based on this partnership, an important ALUMNI post-doc organization can be launched with trained leaders in Marine Ecosystem Health and Conservation.
The MARES doctorate programme includes a compulsory collaboration between at least two partners (and/or associated partners) during the preparation of the doctorate. Therefore, institutional mobility and placements of minimum 6 months is foreseen at the start of the doctoral period by involving at least two MARES partners per doctoral subject.
For the MARES doctoral programme, EU will fund each year for 8-10 Ph.D. grants (each 3 years). In principle the school is granted for 5 years indicating that after 5 years, about 40 – 50 doctoral candidates will be trained in fields of Marine Ecosystem health and Conservation.
The call for applications (for the Fourth Edition of MARES: Doctoral Candidates starting September 2014 at the earliest) is expected to be published in September 2013. The applications for previous calls (Edition 1: September 2010; Edition 2: September 2011 and Edition 3: September 2012) have been closed.
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The MARES doctorate programme includes a compulsory collaboration between at least two partners (and/or associated partners) during the preparation of the doctorate. Therefore, institutional mobility and placements of minimum 6 months is foreseen at the start of the doctoral period by involving at least two MARES partners per doctoral subject.
For the MARES doctoral programme, EU will fund each year for 8-10 Ph.D. grants (each 3 years). In principle the school is granted for 5 years indicating that after 5 years, about 40 – 50 doctoral candidates will be trained in fields of Marine Ecosystem health and Conservation.
The call for applications (for the Fourth Edition of MARES: Doctoral Candidates starting September 2014 at the earliest) is expected to be published in September 2013. The applications for previous calls (Edition 1: September 2010; Edition 2: September 2011 and Edition 3: September 2012) have been closed.
In case you want to be informed of new actions in MARES subscribe the MARES mailing list: Subscribe mailing list
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